Time Regained - Volume 12 of Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, Trans Andreas Mayor, Chatto & Windus, London, 1970
v Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus.
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Tansonville
Synopsis
The Narrator is staying with Gilberte, now married to Saint-Loup, at their home at Tansonville, near Combray. They go for walks together. He reflects upon Saint-Loup’s character, with his mistresses, visits to houses of ill-fame and liaison with the violinist Morel. He reads a book loaned to him by Gilberte, the unpublished diary of the Goncourts, being an account of the Verdurins' salon, and forms the view that he has no talent for writing.
34 Having regard to the progress of his illness, he determines to break with society, renounce travel, and going to galleries. During the long years he spends in a sanatorium far from Paris, he no longer dwells upon such matters, and he had altogether given up the idea of writing until the sanatorium was unable to find medical staff at the beginning of 1916, whereupon he decided to return to a very different Paris from the one to which he had returned briefly for two months in 1914.
3-4 An athletic form of idleness In these days especially, when physical exercise is so much in favour, there exists also, even outside the actual hours of sport, an athletic form of idleness which finds expression not in inertia but in a feverish vivacity that hopes to leave boredom neither time nor space to develop in.
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Synopsis
The Narrator is staying with Gilberte, now married to Saint-Loup, at their home at Tansonville, near Combray. They go for walks together. He reflects upon Saint-Loup’s character, with his mistresses, visits to houses of ill-fame and liaison with the violinist Morel. He reads a book loaned to him by Gilberte, the unpublished diary of the Goncourts, being an account of the Verdurins' salon, and forms the view that he has no talent for writing.
34 Having regard to the progress of his illness, he determines to break with society, renounce travel, and going to galleries. During the long years he spends in a sanatorium far from Paris, he no longer dwells upon such matters, and he had altogether given up the idea of writing until the sanatorium was unable to find medical staff at the beginning of 1916, whereupon he decided to return to a very different Paris from the one to which he had returned briefly for two months in 1914.
3-4 An athletic form of idleness In these days especially, when physical exercise is so much in favour, there exists also, even outside the actual hours of sport, an athletic form of idleness which finds expression not in inertia but in a feverish vivacity that hopes to leave boredom neither time nor space to develop in.
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